Voices of the Mideast and North Africa – May 19, 2010
In tonight’s program, we will bring you excerpts from “American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein, ” an award winning, probing and provocative documentary on the life and work of the scholar Norman Finkelstein, one of the most courageous and embattled intellectuals in the U.S. Norman Finkelstein is out with a new book entitled “This … Continued
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – Jerusalem, a modern history; also, in search of Iraq’s artistic life
In tonight's program, Khalil Bendib speaks with Director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies and Birzeit University Professor of sociology Salim Tamari http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/authors.php?auid=68 about an essay published in the Jerusalem quarterly titled "Jerusalem's Ottoman modernity," in which he depicts a very different Jerusalem around the turn of the 20th century than the one we are … Continued